Description: Gavin challenges key elements of the widely accepted narrative about the history of the atomic age and the consequences of the nuclear...
Brief description: Francis J. Gavin is Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971.
Review Quotes:
Nuclear Statecraft is a provocative and fascinating book. The writing is lucid, the analysis tightly woven and sophisticated, and the book's core conclusion--that much of what is said and thought about nuclear policy today remains hobbled by a pervasive ignorance of history (even, or perhaps especially, among nuclear policy experts)--is well argued and compelling. This book makes a significant contribution to the body of scholarly research about the evolution of US nuclear policy.
--Janne E. Nolan "Nonproliferation Review"